XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Luca Passani <passani AT eunet.no>]

Elliotte Harold wrote:

> You might wish to read the design principles. In particular, I think 
> this fragment explains my philosophy:
>
>     One of the jobs of the expert or experts who design the API is to 
> know better
>     than the client programmers what they should be doing.
>     It is the API’s task to lead the client programmers in the right 
> direction by making
>     the right path easy and the wrong path difficult to impossible.
>     At the extreme, it is the job of the expert  to tell the client 
> programmers
>     that they really don’t want to do what they think they want to do,
>     that they should do something else instead.
>
> http://www.xom.nu/designprinciples.xhtml#d0e161

Lots of nice words, but still I fail to see how having to waste a bunch 
of CPU cycles for each HTTP request is the
right path, when all I want  is to get rid of extra garbage in the logs....

Luca



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